title: The Possible Incommensurability of Utilities and the Learning of Goals
creator: Edmonds, Bruce
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Decision Theory
description: This is a short article to examine the following possibility: that a single agent might simultaneously have different utilities that are incommensurable. Some arguments aginst this possiblity are considered and rejected. Two practical examples are given and its implications in terms of goal change and learning are discussed.
date: 1997-09
type: Departmental Technical Report
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/postscript
identifier: http://cogprints.org/359/1/incutilA4.ps
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/359/5/incutil.pdf
identifier:   Edmonds, Bruce  (1997) The Possible Incommensurability of Utilities and the Learning of Goals.  [Departmental Technical Report]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/359/